This suit upgrade was, sadly, to last simply one outing before it was accidentally destroyed maliciously.

So welcome back for another Average Joe everyone! This strip is going to wrap up the little mini-arc we had going here about Joe and his flight capabilities – it seems that, for now at least, Joe remains unable to fly; he still has a bunch of powers that did go through when he was accidentally doused with the Achilles formula though, so we can expect to still see some pretty good superhero antics for now

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I realise this is just a comic and we shouldn’t take it seriously but….
Did you know they actually did an experiment once to see ho many balloons it would take to life someone off of the ground? If I remember right, it took about 3000 or so just to lift them a meter? Knowing this kinda ruined the film Up for me…
But hey, I thought it was interesting

Heh, I had waaay too much fun with Up to let the science let me down (including the at-least-100-year-old Muntz leaping around like a sprightly septuagenarian!); but fear not – although there aren’t that many balloons in panel four, the science (well, AJ in-universe science, anyway) holds up! These balloons are in fact filled with sand, not helium – sand which has been soaked in the anti-gravity fluid we saw in the previous strip. It has a higher lift capacity, and this way Joe can grab a balloon or two and trickle some sand out, then re-tie the baloon and float gently downwards (a trickier proposition with helium-filled balloons – I’m sure we’ve all tried that in the past )

At least, he could use them this way, before the upgrade was accidentally destroyed maliciously and all